Can-handling device and bearing



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J. RUGGIERO CAN HANDLING DEVICE AND swims Filed Oct. 21, 1926 Patented July 24,1928.

UNETED STATES JOHN RUGGIERO, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

CAN-HANDLING DEVICE AND BEARING.

Application filed October 21, 1926. Serial No. 143,252.

This invention relates to bearings and to a device for handling cans or barrels. Its principal object is to provide an improved bearing utilizable for various purposes, and to provide a device with which heavily loaded cans, such as ash cans may be rolled about their lower peripheral edges or rims with ease, convenience, and eliiciency.

@ther objects and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawings,

Fig. 1 is a general sectional elevation of an ash can showing the handling device ap plied thereto.

Fig. 2 shows a sectional elevation, in an enlarged scale, of one of the bearings 01? the handling device.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the handling device.

Fig. l is a peripective View of the bearing shown in Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 shows a front elevation of the hearing.

Figs. 6 and 7 show the bearings, in a reduced scale, as applied to situations other than to an ash can.

To the upper part of the ash can 1 and around the exterior of its wall is secured a hoop constituting a channelled track 2. The handling device 3 proper comprises a metallie band 1 consisting of two parts 5, 6

hinged to each other at 7 and having a gap 8, and to said parts is secured a pair of op positely disposed handles The extremitie's 10 of parts 5, 6 can be locked to each other at gap 8 by n ieans of a bolt 11 which is pivoted to part 6 at 1.2 and is swingable across said gap and between a pair of keepers 13. A thumb-nut l l threads over the end of bolt 11 and is engageable with the keeper 13, as shown in Fig. 3, and as the position of the nut 14 upon the bolt 11 may be regulated, the band 4, which tends to spring outwardly, may be thereby ad] usted to varying diameters within certain limits.

The band l carries upon its inner side a plurality of bearii'igs 15, each of which, Fig 2, is provided with a stud 16 and cap 17 that are secured to the band, by means of rivets 18 passing through said cap, stud, and band, in the manner shown, A roller 19 is revoluble about the stud 16. on which it is laterally guided by means of the cap 17 and a flange 20 forming part of the stud. 1n the centers of the cap 17 and stud 16 are formed rectangular registering recesses 21, 22, in,

which is located a smaller roller 28 mounted on a shaft 24 journaled in the stud 16 as shown, the roller 23 being thus surrounded by the roller 19 and rotatin in aplane which passes through the center of the roller 19.

When it is desired to use the handling device 3, the bolt 11 is unlocked from the keepers 13 and the parts 5, Got the band are swung outwardly about the hinge 7 and are passed around the channelled track 2 of the can 1. The band-parts 5, 6 are then closed, with the rollers 23 bearing against the web 25 of the track, and the bolt 11 is then locked to the keepers 13, to thereby lock the device in it; operative state upon the can, as shown in Fig. 1. The device may be then grasped at the handles 9 and the can there with propelled in tilted state upon its lower rim 26, by merely moving the device in the direction desired, the bearing-rollers 19, 23 coacting with the wall 25, and either of the walls 22', 28 of thc'track 2, and causing the can to rotate within the comparatively stationary device 8, without bringing the band lin any actual contact with the track 2, to

thereby facilitate and render easy the propulsion or movement of the can upon its run 26. 1

In Fig.7 the bearing 15 is shown as applied to any kind of frame 29 belonging to any device, other than an ash can, and cooperating with a channelled track 2. In Fig. 6 the bearing 15 is shown as utilized in connection with a diiierent frame 30 and with an angle-iron track 81.

Variations may be resorted to within the scope of the invention, and portions of the improvements may be'used without others.

Having thus described my invention, I clain p 1. Abearing having the combination with a frame, of a stud secured thereto, a roller mounted to revolve around said stud, and a roller mounted on said stud to revolve within said other roller and right angularly thereto.

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